Ejection

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Are you busy Feb. 25? If not, you may want to consider a trip to VCU's Siegel Center. Judging from Saturday's first game between William and Mary and VCU, the rematch should be worth a look. The Tribe's typically physical style left VCU's gifted athletes frustrated, dejected and in two cases, ejected. The result was a 92-81 decision that was likely William and Mary's most satisfying victory of the season. "Just another Saturday afternoon," W&M coach Rick Boyages deadpanned.

Even the guys in the striped shirts can admit when they're wrong. First-year Heritage coach John Quillen received a rude welcome to the high school football head coaching ranks last Thursday. Though the Hurricanes mauled Cox in a 33-6 fashion, Quillen was ejected for what was believed to be his second unsportsmanlike conduct infraction of the game. But the ejection wouldn't stand for long. Quillen was exonerated less than 24 hours later and will be on the sidelines this weekend.

Although Hampton University is expecting a fight from Howard in tonight's 6 o'clock matchup at the Convocation Center, the Lady Pirates do not want a repeat of their Jan. 4 game against the Lady Bison in Washington. In that meeting, Hampton starting center Nakia Jones was ejected from the game for hitting Howard center Yetta Enobakhare. Jones had to sit out Hampton's next game, something coach Patricia Bibbs knows her team can't afford to have happen again during this crucial stretch in the regular season.

Modern rock is out at WROX-FM (96.1). Beginning today, the station has switched to a contemporary hits format, says station manager Jerry Del Core. Instead of Green Day and Third Eye Blind, listen for songs by Dave Matthews Band, Mariah Carey, Shania Twain and Backstreet Boys. When it burst on the scene in late 1993, WROX caught listeners' attention with its fresh rock sound. "96X" climbed as high as eighth in the Arbitron ratings service but slipped out of the Top 10 in recent years.

A commercial fighter jet used for Navy combat training crashed Friday morning at Oceana Naval Air Station - less than a mile from a Virginia Beach neighborhood - when it ran low on fuel and the pilot ejected just short of the runway. No one was seriously hurt. The supersonic, Swedish-built fighter-bomber, a Saab Draken hired out of Newport News, was returning from a routine mission in which it simulated attacking Navy ships in the Atlantic. The pilot, Ed Riley of Los Angeles, received only cuts and bruises after ejecting from the craft.

An F-15C Eagle jet fighter from Langley Air Force Base crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Monday morning while on a training mission approximately 65 miles due east of Virginia Beach. The pilot of the single-seat jet, 1st Lt. David M. Nyikos of the 1st Fighter Wing's 94th Fighter Squadron, ejected and was rescued from high seas by a wind-whipped Coast Guard search-and-rescue helicopter. He was flown to the 1st Fighter Wing Hospital at Langley, treated for mild hypothermia and sent home, base officials said.

Hampton University's men's basketball team will be without starting point guard Thomas Rogers when it takes the floor against Old Dominion at 7:30 tonight at HU's Convocation Center. Rogers has to sit because he was ejected for fighting during Wednesday's 91-72 loss at Iona. That infraction carries an NCAA-mandated one-game suspension. He is the Pirates' leading scorer, averaging 12.7 per game. Even at full strength, HU (0-3) would have had a tough time with the Monarchs (5-0)

It may not look it, but the one-third of the F-22 fighter jet built by the folks at Dynamic Engineering is ready to fly, albeit without leaving the ground. It will be trucked from Oyster Point on Wednesday to an Air Force base in the New Mexican desert, where it will be loaded onto a jet-powered sled and rocketed down a 10,000-foot-long railroad track at the speed of sound. All that so the companies that are building the F-22 - Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Pratt & Whitney - can test ejection seats without crashing planes or losing pilots.

A Langley Air Force Base F-15C on a routine training exercise in Nevada crashed into the desert and exploded in flames just after takeoff Thursday afternoon, but the jet's pilot managed to safely eject before the jet struck the ground, 1st Fighter Wing officials said. The pilot, Capt. Michael R. Fontaine of the 27th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Wing, was taken to the military hospital at Nellis Air Force Base, where he was listed in stable and non-life-threatening condition, according to the wing's 2nd Lt. Patricia Lang.